music on headphones and public radio in my car, words that make my lungs feel too full as if they are giving me first breath, films that show life as it is and as it should be, interpreting Jack's barks, baking too often, singing too loudly, 1st graders and kindergarteners who break my heart, making this place better, making myself better, pretty clothes and shiny things, woodland creatures and beautiful views, my family and my friends and the strangers whose stories i haven't heard yet.
people I know or people whom other people in my life already know.
nickel creek, dolly parton, iron & wine
everything is illuminated, amelie, the great muppet caper, the gleaners and I, 9 to 5, dancer in the dark, beauty & the beast, thoroughly modern millie, waiting for guffman, best in show, spellbound, funny face, garden state, eternal sunshine sunshine of the spotless mind, walk the line,mad hot ballroom.
lost, the office, west wing, project runway, ugly betty, this american life, fresh air, talk of the nation science fridays, all things considered ( a few of those are radio)
Words of my childhood: Anne of Avonlea series, Chronicles of Narnia, Black Cauldron series, Laura INgalls WIlder's Little House books, the american girl books, everything Beverly Cleary did, and any books involving orphans-- human or otherwiseThe most influential words since then: Cat's Eye, Jane Eyre, Their Eyes were Watching God, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Till We Have Faces, The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Loneliness, The Sound & the Fury, King Lear, Traveling Mercies And important people who didn't write any of the books above: Adrienne Rich, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Oliver, e. e. cummings, Sharon Olds, Anne Sexton, Wendell Berry, Pablo Neruda, Garrison Keillor, Kahlil Gibran, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
my dad, Mr. Rogers, Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa